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World releases open-source toolkit for privacy-preserving identity proofs

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World has released ProveKit, which new documentation from the biometric proof of personhood (PoP) firm calls “a production-ready zero-knowledge proving toolkit that lets users generate proofs on their own devices” – and “a big milestone in real-world privacy.” ProveKit sees World addressing a version of the same questions around implementation and adoption facing every digital identity project. The firm puts it like this: “As World enters its third year, the question is no longer just ‘can we prove humanness?’ but ‘can we make that proof useful? ’” What, in other words, are the best and most user-centric use cases and approaches for verification? “A bar checking your age, a social platform filtering bots, a government service confirming residency, all of these need to verify something about you without seeing all of the underlying data on your ID card.” The company says ProveKit helps solve this problem, by enabling World ID users who store identity documents in the app to do it “by th

First report: World open-sources ProveKit, a zero-knowledge identity proving toolkit — theblock.co, 12d